“I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing. Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm.”
The above quote was taken from the Hippocratic Oath which was a solemn promise historically taken by physicians. It was first used in Greece and was one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. Originally the oath required a new physician to swear to uphold specific ethical standards.

I am getting a late start this morning. I turned on the TV in the kitchen to see how the storm in Texas was doing and couldn’t tear myself away. It’s like a bad tooth. You know it’s going to hurt, but you keep putting your tongue in it anyway. We are dry as a bone, and the grass is brown. We haven’t had rain in a while and Texas and parts of the Gulf Coast are inundated. The news man said they could get up to 50 inches before this is over. My mind just can’t fathom it, and the rain is not supposed to stop before Wednesday.

The wedding of Amanda Dawn McDanell, formerly of Owenton, daughter of William “Moto” and Linda McDanell, and Sean Cermak of Collinsville, Miss., will begin at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, at Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church with a reception following at the Long Ridge Baptist Church reception building. RSVP to the brides’ parents at wdlinda@bellsouth.net.

Last week my husband and I took a short trip to Winter Garden, a town not too far from Orlando.
We went to the historic downtown district with its trendy businesses housed in restored storefronts from as far back as the early 1900s.
A restaurant we went in was originally Cappleman Brothers Grocery Store, built in 1912.
As my husband read the menu, I read about the history of the building — the original brick, the gothic stained glass panels in the front window that came from an old Presbyterian church.